To the Abbot of St Mary's Sawtre in the Diocese of Lincoln. Mandate at the petition of the Benedictine abbot and convent of Ramseye, in the diocese of Lincoln, containing that formerly William Walthom, rector of Somersham in the said diocese, falsely asserting the meadow or marsh commonly called Crowlodemedowe in the diocese of Ely, situate within the bounds of the parish church of Chatteritz, in the same diocese of Lincoln and belonging to the said monastery, to be situate within the bounds of the church of Someresham and its tithes to belong to himself and his said church brought before the official of Ely with a view to obtain a declaration in his favour, the following parishioners of Catheritz, cultivators of the meadow, namely William Smyth of Catheritz, William Heyne, William Taillo, John Smyth, Stephen Peyt, Thomas Collesone, William Roed, John Chenyngwold, John Masseleyn, John Botessone, John Mason the younger, John Stevensone, John Swetemelk, John Smyth and Peter Aubin. And that the official (Of Ely) without summoning the said abbot and convent gave a definitive and unjust sentence against the said parishioners, from which the abbot and convent, as soon as they heard of it, have appealed to the apostolic see and petitioned for the committal of their appeal to be heard in those parts. (The abbot of St Marys is) to summon the said rector and others concerned, to hear and decide the appeal and the cause itself, causing his decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure and conditionally to absolve from excommunication the said parishioners.

Ides of June 1401